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Record W4412566546 · doi:10.1111/soc4.70087

Novel and Emerging Perspectives in Health Policy and Care in Indigenous and Tribal Populations: A Bibliometric Analysis

2025· article· en· W4412566546 on OpenAlex
Uddipta Singha Lahkar, R. M. Channaveer

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Bibliographic record

VenueSociology Compass · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlobal Maternal and Child Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousSociologyHealth careSocial scienceRegional scienceEconomic growthBiologyEcologyEconomics

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Tribal and indigenous communities around the world possess rich and diverse cultural traditions. Despite this, they continue to experience considerable health inequalities, largely due to past exclusion, inadequate healthcare access, and socio‐economic challenges. Recently, there has been a growing academic focus on formulating inclusive health policies and enhancing healthcare systems to improve health outcomes and ensure equity for these populations. This study uses a bibliometric analysis of the Scopus database to examine research on indigenous and tribal health policy and healthcare from 1988 to 2024. From an initial 326 articles, a final dataset of 265 articles was curated. The findings offer a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of health policy and care for indigenous and tribal populations. Australia is the leading contributor, collaborating with countries like Canada, the USA, and New Zealand. Universities such as the University of Sydney and Flinders University are pivotal in advancing research on the subject. In science mapping, co‐word analysis identifies emerging trends followed by bibliographic coupling which discovers promising themes. This analysis informs strategies to enhance global health outcomes for indigenous and tribal populations through interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and effective policy interventions, aiming for equitable and culturally responsive healthcare solutions.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.991

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0200.016
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.364 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it